coming up. is the most important day in the christian calendar, and thousands are gathering to celebrate easter mass begins at the vatican. meanwhile religious events across the middle east marred by ongoing violence, we re live in jerusalem and beirut, and why to tennessee lawmakers expelled from the statehouse could soon be back at one. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with poland, he said. up first for us. it s easter sunday, the holiest day of the christian calendar. celebrating with the bible says was the resurrection of jesus. tens of thousands of the faithful have converged on st peter s square for easter mass. currently underway there. hope francis is presiding over the service. he will then deliver his traditional urbi or or be or at to the city of the world blessing. the 86 year old pontiff has been recovering from bronchitis after being hospitalized last week now later in the show, we will head to the vatican for a live update with our delia gallagher. me
original heaven s gate sunday at 10 on cnn. good morning to you. so glad to have you with us. i m jessica dean to have jessica with us. i m jim sciutto as investigators continue searching for a motive, new details are emerging about the shooter who killed murdered three children and three teachers and staffers at a christian elementary school. former teacher says the shooter was suffering years ago. all of this coming to light as the community tries to respond and take care of each other to face the painful reality. at the time like this, you you love each other. you support each other. you re there for each other, and nobody is walking through this alone. but this has been a tragic and horrible situation. and the lines of communication open with former president donald trump. top house republican lawmakers regularly reporting to him as his enormous power with them on capitol hill indoors, plus just months after walking out of freeman adnan syed, the subject of a popular podc
this thing is going to go just yet. america s top diplomat is now headed to london after ramping up his high stakes trip to beijing, u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken is touting progress after two days of talks, where top chinese officials including president sheet and paying, but key issues between the u.s. and china remain unresolved. cnn s kylie outward has details. secretary of state, anthony blinken casting u.s. china relations as a work in progress at the end of his two-day visit to beijing, coming when tensions between the competing nations have never been greater. it was clear coming into the relationship that it was at a point of instability. and both sides recognize the need to work to stabilize it. after about ten hours with the country s top foreign policy officials, blinken kept his visit by sitting down with chinese president, xi jinping. the chinese leader saying that
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diplomats who signed onto it to capitol hill because he s concerned about having a chilling effect on diplomats who would use this channel in the future. but the chairman of the committee is saying that he needs that information. he wants that information, understand what the state department wasn t doing to prepare. for the withdrawal at that time, guys that dissent channel it s open for a reason to allow just that kind of you to be expressed. even if it s not the predominant view. it s helpful. kylie outward, thanks so much for walking us throughout. south korea and the us are demonstrating their firepower during major military exercises , and it s striking a nerve with north korea to allies. the drills are defensive in nature and their regular, but on wednesday morning, they used thousands of troops and high end weaponry to practice and amphibious invasion. north korea sees that as an offensive, not defensive drill. cnn s paula hancocks was there as tanks and troops rolled onto the